american indian movement history

In the last sixty years, a large number of growth regulators have been isolated from plants. The first indication of their existence was given by Darwin (188..

In Japan, the farmers noted that certain rice seedlings grow taller, thinner and paler than the normal ones and toppled over. This condition was termed as bakanae disease (bakanae in Japanese means foolish) or foolish seedling disease. In 1926, a plant pathologist Kurosawa, discovered the causative..

The history of the fax machine begins in 1843 in England with Alexander Bain. He devised an apparatus made up of two pens connected to two pendulums. He joined the two together with a wire, and was able to reproduce writing onto an electrically conductive surface. Some years later, in 18..

The play "Mirabai" has been taken from "Scenes from the life of Saint Mirabai", by E.L. Turnbull, in Dramatic Dialogue Readers (Little Plays from Indian History), published by Oxford University Press in 1931. The play portrays Mirabai's deep devotion towards Lord Krishna and th..

. They are the true giants of humanity; the others are insignificant. It is said that a famous boxer once refused to tie his seat belt aboard a plane. " Superman doesn't need a belt," he resisted. Tying his belt for him, the airhostess replied: " Superman doesn't need a plane either" . The truly gr..

All of the changes, diversifications, and extinctions that happened over the course of life's history are the patterns of overall evolution. Evolution of life has been taking place for about 3.8 billion years of time. When we view macroevolution - the large-scale evolutionary histor..

An ecosystem can be defined as 'a structural and functional unit of biosphere or segment of nature consisting of community of living beings and the physical environment, both interacting and exchanging materials between them'. E. P. Odum, an American ecologist, defined ecology as, 'the st..

Urban activities generate large quantities of city wastes including several Biodegradable materials (like vegetables, animal wastes, papers, wooden pieces, carcasses, plant twigs, leaves, cloth wastes as well as sweepings) and many non-biodegradable materials (such as plastic bags, plastic bottles,..

The atmosphere resource of our world is unique and available to our planet only. No other planet is found to have similar atmosphere. Earth's atmosphere is a legacy from history of this planet. It was formed billions of years back. In the formative years, as the earth started cooling, it ..

. For national distribution, the transmission is downward from a wide angle antenna so that the whole national area is "illuminated" by the transmission. For international distribution, the transmission is also towards the other one or two satellites (in line of sight direction) from highly directi..